Representation

(“My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me.”—Vice-President Marshall.) I. My wife dislikes the income tax, And so I cannot pay it; She thinks that golf all interest lacks, So now I never play it; She is opposed to tolls repeal (Though why I cannot say), But woman’s duty is to feel, And man’s is to obey. II. I’m in a hard position for a perfect gentleman, I want to please the ladies, but I don’t see how I can, My present wife’s a suffragist, and counts on my support, But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort; One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed, And my sister lives in Oregon, she thinks the question’s closed; Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view. Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?